Print edition 27.01.12

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This week, Oxford historian Peter Frankopan argues that the Crusades demolished Christian unity; Dennis Sewell says Republican hopefuls have to reject the theory of evolution if they want to get elected; Luke Coppen talks to Anne Merriman, the doctor who pioneered palliative care in Africa after a near-death experience; and Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith longs for the wine-and-gondola days of ecumenism. Freddy Gray, meanwhile, reflects on the world’s silliest new religion, Kopimism, which worships file sharing. You can read it all online by subscribing here. Or, for a hard copy, go here.